.....The greatest changes occur in their country without their cooperation. They are not even aware of precisely what has taken place. They suspect it; they have heard of the event by chance. More than that, they are unconcerned with the fortunes of their village, the safety of their streets, the fate of their church and its vestry. They think that such things have nothing to do with them, that they belong to a powerful stranger called the government. They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought to how they might be improved.....

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

Some strange things have been happening the last week or so. I receive emails to my phone when someone has made a comment on any of my videos. I've been telling my wife that something weird has been going on because I had been receiving an extraordinary amount of subscriptions & messages so I decided to check my channel. My video "Huge Honey Bee Swarm On Vehicle" a week or so ago had something like 24,000 hits but within what seemed like a 36hr period the views went up to near 100,000 which is pretty incredible, I guess.

Looks like I may have missed the boat big time Thursday night as I received a youtube message I will share with you folks. Apparently a story aired on ABC news Thursday night (which I have not seen) that I could have been included in. A young lady who works with Diane Sawyer sent me the message with her contact info Thursday evening. At the time I was on a roof top removing bees for Sears & didn't have a chance to check the message until later on that night.

My wife & I were uncertain if the message was bogus or not but when I called the lady yesterday I was told the story was real & that it in fact aired Thursday night. Bummer! At her request I did send her my contact info for any future pieces they may be doing on bees.

Here is the message I was sent:

Urgent ABC News request: Bee video on carHello,I work for ABC News "World News with Diane Sawyer". We're doing a story for TONIGHT about bees--including the incredible bee swarms that have occurred lately. Your video is incredible. We are interested in the video that you posted on Youtube called "Huge Honey Bee Swarm On Vehicle"at Huge Honey Bee Swarm On VehicleWe'd love to include it in our segment.Please let me know if you are authorized to distribute the footage by the individual who shot it or if you can put is in contact with the reader who submitted it. Also, please let me know if we may show this video in our ABC News programming, which is distributed worldwide, all media, in perpetuity. We will gladly provide an on-screen credit on the video. Please contact me either by email at (her email) or by telephone at (her phone number) as soon as possible to confirm our clearance to use this material in our programming.Please let me know what you think, and thank you in advance for your help.Best,CatherineSent to: JPthebeeman

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

I don’t normally watch any network news, but when I heard ABC was going to run a story about bees going wild across America, I had to see how they were going to spin it. Were they going to apply the normal scare tactics, or do a piece based on facts and not fear?

To their credit, they didn’t sensationalize the story too much. It was a piece about how swarms of bees are popping up everywhere this year. I believe they had a clip of a swarm that moved into somebody’s walls in Louisiana; or down south someplace.

Funny thing is swarm season pretty much ended up here a couple weeks ago. Yes, we had a ton of swarms this year, but LONG before ABC news figured it out. LOL.

Hey, JP, can I bee your agent? I only want 10% of the bees you collect, you can keep all the money...... :-D I, too, was disgusted by some of the comments below the video. It's just further proof that some people just shouldn't breed.